SPORTS MEDICINE : MEDICAL: NURSING: Nurse Practitioner Says She Gets the Best of Two Worlds: Hand-Holding and Healing
David P. Dillard
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SPORTS MEDICINE :
MEDICAL: NURSING:
Nurse Practitioner Says She Gets the Best of Two Worlds:
Hand-Holding and Healing
Nurse Practitioner Says She Gets the Best of Two Worlds:
Hand-Holding and Healing
By Cindy Atoji Keene
Globe Correspondent /
January 3, 2010
Boston Globe
<http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/01/03/
nurse_practitioner_says_she_gets_the_best_of_two_
worlds_hand_holding_and_healing/>
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As the sole constant care provider - overseeing the patients progress from
the initial call through the rehabilitation process - Walsh brings a
caring style and medical expertise to a practice that also includes nine
orthopedic surgeons. Walsh says as a nurse practitioner, she enjoys being
able to do the hand-holding, coddling nursing piece as well as the more
practical treatment and prescribing of pain medications.
As a nurse practitioner working with surgeons, Walsh provides patients
with an intermediary or devils advocate. Often shell answer questions that
patients are uncomfortable asking their physicians.
There has to be deliverer of hard cold news - the MD - and someone who has
to help creatively integrate hard changes in folks lifestyles, which is
often me, says Walsh, who, as a nurse practitioner, can take health
histories and provide physical exams; diagnose and treat chronic and acute
problems; interpret X-rays and lab results; and manage medications and
other therapies.
The nurse practitioner role evolved in the mid-1960s in response to a
nationwide shortage of physicians. Nurse practitioners are registered
nurses with a graduate degree in advanced practice nursing and are
licensed through the state and national organizations.
I spent 10 years as an emergency room nurse, and then it was a natural
move for me to take advantage of a tuition reimbursement policy to get my
masters degree as an adult nurse practitioner, says Walsh, whose first
nurse practitioner job was doing geriatric assessments in a small
community hospital, followed by working in a sports medicine clinic.
How did you move into orthopedics as a specialty area?
Its funny, because while I was in the program at UMass Worcester, I
vividly remember an orthopedic nurse practitioner giving a lecture, and
thinking, Yuck, I wouldnt want her job, putting casts on all day and
dealing with broken bones. So you never know where you will end up. But I
decided to work with the sports medicine doctor because I figured I could
deal with the orthopedic issues, as long as they were sports medicine
based, rather than strictly trauma. Over time, Ive come to appreciate the
caring/nurturing piece of orthopedics quite thoroughly.
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